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6,680 | what [frei] gives us . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . | 0 |
2,904 | just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . | 1 |
6,848 | when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . | 0 |
992 | . . . wise and elegiac . . . | 1 |
2,381 | what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . | 1 |
3,399 | serious and thoughtful . | 1 |
3,652 | walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . | 0 |
5,921 | one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again and/or sailor moon have been spliced in . | 0 |
2,697 | greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation . | 1 |
1,935 | a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition . | 1 |
6,866 | you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . | 0 |
4,764 | those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . | 0 |
3,850 | mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . | 0 |
1,765 | i'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls | 1 |
1,423 | the movie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale . | 1 |
5,442 | simply a re-hash of the other seven films . | 0 |
5,661 | the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . | 0 |
3,679 | becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . | 0 |
3,173 | " antwone fisher " is an earnest , by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . | 1 |
730 | nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . | 1 |
4,045 | it's not just the vampires that are damned in queen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . | 0 |
7,018 | its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . | 0 |
6,952 | jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . | 0 |
4,477 | seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . | 0 |
5,778 | . . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . | 0 |
4,105 | observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . | 0 |
3,148 | it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . | 1 |
1,606 | it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . | 1 |
6,476 | when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . | 0 |
3,229 | about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . | 1 |
2,217 | together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . | 1 |
5,938 | divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly noisy . | 0 |
1,671 | until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . | 1 |
1,340 | worth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance . | 1 |
6,443 | includes too much obvious padding . | 0 |
1,544 | quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . | 1 |
2,245 | the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . | 1 |
5,632 | lawrence preaches strictly to the converted . | 0 |
782 | the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast . | 1 |
535 | for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again . | 1 |
2,985 | to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking . | 1 |
3,335 | it's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to . | 1 |
1,670 | for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love . | 1 |
6,963 | in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . | 0 |
6,227 | diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance | 0 |
4,119 | barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . | 0 |
2,068 | achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medium . | 1 |
6,185 | the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 |
485 | passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . | 1 |
4,409 | an awkward and indigestible movie . | 0 |
5,737 | there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming . | 0 |
6,969 | been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . | 0 |
1,704 | it gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . | 1 |
255 | shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail | 1 |
6,374 | the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . | 0 |
6,924 | moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . | 0 |
1,555 | promises is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . | 1 |
3,713 | this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm . | 0 |
1,946 | excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . | 1 |
6,802 | amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the " other side of the story . " | 0 |
3,882 | it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . | 0 |
404 | though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . | 1 |
1,390 | a breezy blend of art , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . | 1 |
4,343 | 'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' | 0 |
5,086 | we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . | 0 |
2,284 | the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . | 1 |
3,726 | about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who can't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . | 0 |
1,795 | a beautifully observed character piece . | 1 |
4,289 | set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york . | 0 |
1,156 | the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . | 1 |
1,105 | " nicholas nickleby " is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . | 1 |
4,601 | is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? | 0 |
1,589 | a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . | 1 |
4,224 | less than fresh . | 0 |
3,460 | a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . | 1 |
1,564 | generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . | 1 |
637 | has enough wit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . | 1 |
359 | it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . | 1 |
4,887 | a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . | 0 |
401 | can i admit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? | 1 |
6,365 | [swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . | 0 |
1,756 | it is a likable story , told with competence . | 1 |
4,878 | boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . | 0 |
5,729 | for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . | 0 |
1,966 | one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . | 1 |
365 | the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . | 1 |
6,568 | contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . | 0 |
1,619 | could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . | 1 |
2,070 | although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . | 1 |
6,306 | i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i survived . | 0 |
2,925 | for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . | 1 |
5,959 | adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? | 0 |
5,533 | an uplifting , largely bogus story . | 0 |
3,242 | a bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . | 1 |
832 | it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . | 1 |
228 | an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality . | 1 |
7,042 | the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . | 0 |
755 | an elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . | 1 |
2,325 | the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross's turn as ken . | 1 |
2,849 | this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family | 1 |
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